Imagine …
Clouds
Did you know the word “clouds” is synonymous with “threat, menace, shadow, blight, gloom, trouble, problem, worry, crisis, ..“(only a few of the 95 listed synonyms according to many resources online)?
It also relates to the actual clouds above us in our skies, the very ones that bring Life and Water.
I now understand why 'clouds' was chosen for these books.
The use of ‘clouds’ was not intentional for these books. Three years ago, Brother told me I was to take photographs of clouds for a book that I was going to be creating. So I began taking pictures and, as the time drew near, understanding for the contents of the books began: photographs of the clouds with the guidances I was given written on them. The title of the book was always Dwelling Among the Clouds. I did not even think to research the name because, like you, I thought it was simply the clouds above … until the day of publishing when I was told to look up the synonym for ‘clouds’.
I did.
It is a double-entendre, both warning and enlightening: We are being warned we are dwelling among threats today, but we also have the means and ability to raise ourselves out of these threats and live peacefully as if among the quiet clouds moving above us … or, as many believe, within the world of ONEGodSHeIt* … the Ineffable Energy of Love existing everywhere.
No one can deny we are dwelling among crisis today. It is worldwide. All of the threats we are facing, be it war, reversal and denial of rights, denial of literally existing, dictators trying to or succeeding in overthrowing governments, groups of people killing because someone doesn't believe something, humans killing, abusing, maiming their fellow human brothers, sisters and siblings instead of protecting them, environmental destruction, annihilation of species of plants, animals on land and sea … all of these crisis are resulting from the absence of Peace within each one of us which ultimately is resulting from lack of Knowledge of Love.
It is not religion. It is not science. It is understanding our purpose of existence.
Our World today calls for proactive action on the individual level because the majority of these catastrophes that exist among us are instigated by those we have either placed in leadership or have taken leadership over others.
Ultimately, we all are responsible.
No one is free of the catastrophes existing everywhere in our world. We are all affected by every single crisis that grows, harms, and destroys for it is centuries of these that has led to a World with no Peace.
Dwelling Among the Clouds is simply a call to listening to what we all already know, but so few of us really put into action:
LEAD THROUGH LOVE.
Lead Your Self,
Lead Your Neighbors,
Lead Your Family,
and above all,
Lead Your Leaders
All through Love.
We can get higher without the peril and risk as the price of a happy life, which is being sold to us, if we stop underestimating the Energy, the Power, of Love, if we begin sharing Love within the World.
Imagine … you can do this ... grow your wings ...
Imagine ... Sharing your Love within the World
"Why the Butterflies?"
You know the Butterfly Effect but have your heard of the Self Effect?
For centuries, butterflies have been symbolic of Spirit, Reincarnation, Creation, and Eternal Life. They have been aligned with fairies, souls, and messengers of the gods which are today called "angels". This tiny, beautiful creature plays an essential part in the ongoing Circle of Life and has captured the nuances of life within the imagination of humans, inspiring generations of people in art, literature, religions, and science. The butterfly has been taken for granted by generations of people, but without these flowers of the air, we face an uncertain future.
Much like the butterfly, we affect all things around us, and our influences are echoed around the world for what we carry within us, our Self (our Soul and our Mind), is reflected into the world and people around us.
A Butterfly is symbolic of Spirit, of Energy.
It is the spark that with it ignites creation or without it ensures destruction.
This is each of us as a butterfly affecting the world and people around us.
This is the Self Effect.
It is this Self Effect that may become the greatest love story within us for we effect creation, also easily understood as Love, within our world, and this effects Peace,
or
this Self Effect may become the struggles of life within us, also easily understood as Apathy, for we effect destruction within our world, and this effects Turmoil.
Who we are in our heart determines our affect, our effect, our love story with our Self,
and whether
we dwell among the clouds like the whispers of butterflies' wings gently stirring creation in this world,
or
we dwell among the clouds like the tulmultous reverbrations of destruction destroying what remains in this word.
Dwelling among the clouds requires living proactively, giving guidance, conducting our Self, considering the outcomes of actions to determine the work of creating connections for perpetuating life before acting on those actions. Conducting our Self to connect with others and the world around us effects Peace Beginning Endlessly (connecting-disconnecting-reconnecting) for us.
Self Effect: Your Peace effects World Peace through those around you.
Fighting among our own destructions is living reactively, living controlled by our Self, reacting to impulses of our Self with no thought, seeking immediate rewards, no thought of outcomes resulting in destruction and fear causing our Self to react again, locking us into a Catch 22. Being controlled by our Self effects Perpetual Turmoil for us.
Self Effect: Your Turmoil effects World Turmoil through those around you.
Self Effect is either the beginning or ending of the Greatest Love Story within you.
Only you can answer ...
Is your Self Effect Peace?
or
Is your Self Effect Turmoil?
This is ...
What is Guidance?
Guidance of an Ancient Knowledge
Guidance: "advice or information aimed at resolving a problem or difficulty, especially as given by someone in authority." -
Oxford Languages via Google Dictionary, 7.19.2023
For millennia, Guidance has existed not only in writing but in life around us. Over time, Fear has disconnected our ability to perceive Guidance in our World from each of us. However, Guidance perceived within the World has been recorded within ancient writings, ancient understandings, ancient cultures, ancient philosophies, ancient ways of life which birthed modern religions, sciences, philosophies, non-beliefs, ways of life, so we only need to listen for it. There has always been more than one path, although many paths have been denied by people existing in perpetual Fear controlled by Self which has led to multifolds of Self Effect of Turmoil effecting Perpetual World Turmoil.
It is Fear that makes Listening impossible.
You don't listen when you choose to be controlled by Self.
Guidance advises us how to conduct our Self. Advises ... which means you conduct your own choice using Guidance. We need to understand control over Self does not mean 'denying' our Self because without our Self we cease to exist: it is our Soul and our Mind. Nor do we swing way over to the other end of the spectrum and completely 'spoil' our Self for that gives control to Self. We may enjoy the short term, but the long-term is Destruction: too many sweets leads to tooth decay.
It is conducting our Self that leads to listening.
You listen when you conduct your Self.
Listening to Guidance is not a hidden sacred gift only for leaders of religions.
It is accessible without rituals for people like you and I. Listening should not be nullified by science for science is a Guidance itself. Simply explained, Guidance is advice that has existed endlessly for it is of One. It is everywhere. It is constantly reflected in nature. It is the path to the Truth, existing as more than one path simultaneously. So it may be, among the many Guidance paths, there is more than one path which appeals to you, or there may be only one path which appeals to you. It also may be your path is not the path for others, just as other paths may not be for you.
Guidance is neither controlled nor owned by anyone. It is free, everywhere.
Guidance is for all of us.
Creation begins in the space between sounds.
It is connection-disconnection-reconnection of these “spaces of silence”, our perceptions often described as vibrating, forming sound from nothing. Guidance is the ability to hear the space between creation. This ability is attained through meditation, which takes many forms, each as unique as each of us and includes: humming, prayer, singing, music, reciting, reading, dancing, chanting, drawing, building, cooking, gardening, nature watching, hiking, sleeping, dreaming, daydreaming, birdwatching, knitting, swimming, making love, etc.
The key to meditation is to become aware of the spaces.
Listening to "Silence" is the first step to hearing Guidance.
Guidance is all paths steadfastly connecting-disconnecting-reconnecting, beginning endlessly.
It is your Free Will to walk the path that awakens the memory of your Self so you may Listen, and it is your Choice to choose to leave it.
What you do with Guidance is up to you.
Afterall, this is The Greatest Romance Never Sold, the Greatest Love Story within You.
How you write your love story is your own creation.
There is no one person who holds the outcome to your own story but you.
It exists already within you, it is simply waiting for your beginning.
Create.
This Journey to the Center of Your Heart begins with you.
Being Free to Hear
7 years ago, I was given a simple task to Do: Write.
I did not know what or how I was to write, but I was to write to the World, for all people, so I began with the easiest path I could find: Facebook. Then I wrote what I dreamed, what I heard, and what I was given, words placed within my mind, sometimes at the most inopportune moment, so I learned to carry a pen and paper with me everywhere.
And I wrote.
Part of my learning curve was to clear away what I had been taught over the years.
Part of that meant learning to understand how Fear controlled a great deal of thought in our world, so much so that we are even unaware of that control.
I also learned that it no longer mattered as to who began the clouding of Truth. The only importance was to learn how to walk among the clouds to see the Truth and to do that I had to learn to Love.
Not the typical love we all associated with life but to LOVE each and every person on this planet, whether they were pleasant or unpleasant. This did not mean I could not get angry. This simply meant I was not to live in anger or fear for that lead to hate, disconnection.
I was learning to live as I was brought into this world, born in love.
To some that may sound a touch romantic so think of it this way: we are all made by connections be it of cells connecting to each other, people connecting to each other but on every level, there is a connection being made. In the simplest terms as understood by the ancient societies who existed before our time this connection was Love. They knew to survive they needed to be connected to each other and so they became lovers, connected, bonded lovers.
We all have this knowledge within us. It simply has been overwritten by Fear. Today many people still believe finding peace in ourselves is the last step to World Peace (great article linked below). It has always been Step #1. So I share what I have been given with you.
The one who needs to read it knows who they are.
For You
The Modern Struggle
There will be some who say these words speak against the Abrahamic belief of a Single God.
However,
These words speak Truth, that is echoed within an ancient explanation given in Deuteronomy 6:4 of the Torah which literally says:
"Hear Israel YHWH gods YHWH one."
These words speak of One that exists Everywhere, so the concept of being Single, as in Solitary, is misleading Knowledge, as some older now-modern religions already know, just as the concept of a Trinity is too finite, thus also misleading, for Everywhere is neither Solitary nor it is Finite.
It is Many.
It is Simultaneous.
It is Endless.
One.
Everywhere
Endlessly Creating
Simultaneous Existence
Singular Plurality.
Within this website and the pages of Dwelling Among the Clouds, you will find 'ONE' used for the Ineffable Existence found in All Truths held by all people in this world, for all people have a part of the Truth in their choice of religion, philosophy, spiritual development, sciences, or non-belief.
Only when all Truths of all people are united, will there be an illumination of the Truth of One, what many have come to name as
God However You May Call It/Her/Him for there are many paths to the Truth of One.
Set your divisions aside, hear all guidance, find yours and rediscover The Greatest Love Story within you to begin conducting World Peace into your life for your Self and the World.